The amazingly fast pace of modern life brings an inadvertent reliance on quick cookers for home meals, which, in turn, has increased interest if finding the best pressure cookers for everyone’s needs. The pressure cooker was introduced in the 17th Century and occupied many home kitchens for decades before people began depending on fast-food restaurants for their meals. The recent revelations of the health hazards that accompany a fast-food diet is bringing back the pressure cooker as a significant component of modern kitchens. Pressure cookers use less energy than other cooking tools, seals in nutrients that otherwise escape while cooking, and takes far less time than conventional methods of cooking.
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1. The Instant Pot Six-Quart Electric Pressure Cooker
With this six-quart electric pressure cooker from Instant Pot, you can cook inside or outside wherever there is a 120-Volt outlet. This pressure cooker is eight cooking devices in one, lowering the cost to an affordable amount and freeing kitchen storage space. Instant Pot adopted new technology that allows you to start and end the cooking session through Alexa or WIFI. Another technological advance is the intelligence factor that the computer industry supplies to monitor time, temperature, and pressure within the pot.
2. The Mealthy CrispLid for Pressure Cookers
Mealthy offers this innovative and low-cost addition to your existing pressure cooker to increase the capability and options that your pressure cooker already offers you. The CrispLid fits on six-quart and eight-quart pressure cookers to immediately change them into air fryers, broilers, and hot crispers. The transparent lid allows you to monitor the food as it cooks visually. The lid has a digital section that displays temperature and time. The CrispLid comes with a set of tongs, the fryer basket, a raised trivet, and a recipe book.
3. The Presto Eight-Quart Aluminum Pressure Cooker
Presto produces this aluminum pressure cooker and offers it at a cheap price to make it the ideal choice among pressure cookers for every starting kitchen. The pressure cooker runs along the designs of earlier models but with a few necessary modern improvements. The pot consists of heavy-gauge aluminum for equalized heat and a heat-resistant handle that makes lifting while cooking an easy task. The improved pressure regulator maintains pressure balance, no matter what foods you are cooking. The pressure cooker comes with a cooking rack and instruction/recipe book.
4. The Breville Fast/Slow Professional Multi-Function Cooker
Breville offers this traditional pressure cooker with a few modern quirks that you may find of benefit in your kitchen. The cooker itself holds up to six quarts, and the manufacturer suggests a minimum of one-quart usage to maintain the integrity of the food. The digital LCD face is color-coded to indicate whether the cooker is pressurizing, cooking, or releasing steam. This cooker automatically switches to warming mode when the timing pressure sequence ends to keep your cooked food ready until you arrive to eat.
5. The Presto Pressure Canner and Cooker
Presto offers the best pressure cooker and canner on the market with this device coming in two sizes—16-quart and 23-quart. The cooker consists of warp-resistant heavy-duty aluminum that evenly disperses heat. The even temperature delivery and size of this pot lets it double as a boiling water canner for fruits, jams, jellies, salsa, pickles and a host of other canned foods. The set includes canning and cooking racks to process multiple layers at one time. The pressure gauge is adjustable to the full set of recommended pressures for the cooking of meats, vegetables, and fruits.
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6. Mealthy MultiPot Programmable Pressure Cooker
Mealthy produces this affordable pressure cooker for a large variety of kitchen tasks. Whether you want to sauté, make a cake, cook rice, or pressure cook you dinner, this device covers all that and more. The easy-to-use touch control programs let you choose to cook beans, meats, grains, or even yogurt to et the finest tastes and textures that your palate has experienced. An extra stainless steel pot that fits inside the container lets you fix two meals at once.
7. The Programmable Pressure Cooker Kit from Yedi
The programmable pressure cooker from Yedi not only replaces nine different cooking devices, but the kit also includes several extras that every kitchen enjoys. You can program your meals to be ready at the time you get home from work, making cooking a task-free chore after a tiring day. The kit includes all the extras that you would normally need to purchase to make your pressure cooker a multi-task machine—a steamer basket, an egg rack, mitts, cooking utensils, and a recipe book.
8. The Mueller UltraPot Pressure Cooker
Mueller offers this multi-function pressure cooker that replaces ten different kitchen devices for a low cost. This pressure cooker also serves as a steamer, a sauté pan, a yogurt maker, a cake maker, a slow cooker, a rice cooker, and so much more. As a pressure cooker, the manual programmer lets you input the time, temperature, and pressure at which you wish to cook a variety of meats, vegetables, tubers, beans, and fruits. The ceramic non-stick interior is easy to clean no matter what foods you cook.
9. The T-Fal Clipso Stainless-Steel Pressure Cooker
This affordable stovetop pressure cooker from T-Fal is compatible with any burner your stove-top offers. A stainless-steel disk at the bottom of the cooker distributes heat evenly throughout. The stainless-steel body is dishwasher safe once you remove the seal and the pressure gauge. The container cooks up to eight quarts of food. T-Fal equips this cooker with a variable pressure gauge that you adjust manually for finer control over your cooking. The handles are heat resistant allowing you to grasp and move the pot to a different location at need.
10. Mockins Electric Pressure Cooker
If you are looking for the ultimate in low-cost pressure cookers, then look no further than this electric pressure cooker from Mockins. Not only is this cooker low-cost, but it also replaces eight other cooking devices in your kitchen. With this cooker, you can cook rice, meats, vegetables, beans, eggs, tubers, and nearly any other type of healthy food. The pot has 16 programs built into its technology which adapts the cooker into a steamer; a sauté device, a rice cooker, and so much more.
Cooking is simple with the modern pressure cooker. And the simplicity of pressure cooking translates into more flavor and better texture while guarding against the loss of vitamins and minerals that so often happens with traditional cooking methods. With the fast pace of modern life, there is no wonder that singles and families alike search the Internet for the best pressure cooker.
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By BCR Staff
August 2019
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